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Time commitment: 5min - 30min
Ask if your team can do an Instagram takeover for your Athletic Department. On a portable whiteboard or piece of paper, write the prompt, “It is our civic duty as student athletes to vote because..” Have players fill in the blank, then take a picture and post it on your team, athletic department, or personal Instagram account tagging @theteamdotorg Consider turning into a cross-team competition!
Engage with The Team’s civic drill in partnership with ActiVote featuring an exclusive video from Steph Curry!
Citizening isn't just about voting or becoming politically active, it's about how you show up every day for yourself, your teammates, and others. Citizening shows up in the micro-moments, not just the big events. Are you flexing civic character that shows care and concern for others, are you building civic culture by modeling positive contribution? Take some time with your team to discuss: How are we "citizening"?
Engage with The Team’s civic drill in partnership with ActiVote, helping you design your ideal president.
ActiVote has a nonpartisan app to educate voters on important issues and help you plan to vote in your state. Download the app to start building civic habits, learn about policy, and feel empowered.
Showing care and appreciation is one of the best ways to strengthen your community. Get a pack of thank you notes. Write one hand-written note thanking someone for all they do for you. This could be someone you care about or someone you don’t really know (e.g., faculty or dining hall, administrative, or janitorial staff). Consider making it a challenge to turn this into a habit.
Personalize and share this iconic customizable poster from Civic Season. Ask your team to do it to prompt conversation, or post, tagging @historymadebyus and @theteamdotorg
Are you a Builder? Networker? Investigator? Resister? Communicator? Have your players take the Civic Superpower Quiz from Civic Season to learn more about their natural styles of leading and how those characteristics have helped fuel influential leaders in history.
Time commitment: 30min - 2hours
Amplifier Art is a nonprofit, nonpartisan design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our time. Ask your team to look at their free gallery to find a poster or movement that speaks to them personally, and give them space to explain why to their teammates. Consider amplifying that art through individual or a team-based action.
You’re more powerful than you think! Citizen University wants to bring more power to the athletes! They’ve outlined three strategies that every student athlete can use to ensure Election Day is a day for civics and citizenship. 1) Get literate in power 2) Map where power flows 3) Refine your argument to move to action.
Plan a field trip to a meaningful spot on campus, local museum, or historic monument or environmental site to prompt conversation and meaning. Check your campus, community, or local chamber of commerce for suggestions on where to go that is historically significant to your team. Or, consider hosting a virtual history museum tour with your team with one of these sites.
We tend to think about civics as a one day event that happens on Election Day, but there are opportunities and notable calendar events related to civics all year long. Check out this robust calendar and list of activities from Civics Season and ask how your team can get involved beyond Election Day, starting with Juneteenth, National Voter Registration Day, or even Election Hero Day when we honor all of those that volunteer to keep our elections safe and fair.
Time commitment: 2+ hours
Brainstorm and plan how your team can use the new NCAA Name, Image, and Likeness possibilities for good. Individuals might have their own ideas based on their personal branding, and you should encourage that. But there are also more team-oriented opportunities (e.g., sponsoring a game day for foster kids or seeing if donors would support a player-run sports camp for underprivileged youth). Then execute your plan!
Have players sign up to work the local polls. Poll workers get paid for their time and it's a great way to gain an appreciation for what it takes to ensure that everyone can exercise their fundamental right to vote. Find the poll worker application in your county here.